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 4 drawings |  13 b&w photos |  20 data pages |  2 photo caption pages |  2 color transparencies |
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TITLE:
Old Corinth Road Bridge, Spanning Sacandaga River at Corinth Road, Hadley, Saratoga County, NY
CALL NUMBER:
HAER NY,46-HAD,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 4 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 13 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 19 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 2
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
NOTE:
Survey number HAER NY-292
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N383).
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000981
Significance: The Old Corinth Road Bridge, a two-span iron parabolic truss, was built in 1885 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin, Connecticut to replace a covered timber bridge that crossed the Sacandaga River in Saratoga County, New York. Based on an 1878 patent granted to William O. Douglas of Binghamton, New York, its main span is the only extant half-through truss of the three known to have been built. The bridge represents a period of American bridge building when the shop-fabricated/field-erected metal truss was the dominant structural form of highway crossings in most parts of the country. ...
SUBJECTS:
NEW YORK--Saratoga County--Hadley
OTHER TITLE:
Hadley Parabolic Bridge
Bow Bridge
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny1775
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
CORINTH ROAD BRIDGE FROM UPSTREAM RAILROAD TRESTLE, LOOKINGEAST.
DETAIL, ELEVATION, LENTICULAR SPAN.
UPSTREAM VIEW, LOOKING SOUTHEAST FROM RIVER LEVEL.
AXONOMETRIC VIEW, LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM RAILROAD TRESTLE.
VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM ROADWAY AND SOUTH SPAN TO THE NORTH SPAN.
SOUTHEAST PANEL DETAIL, SOUTH SPAN, FROM ROADWAY.
TOP AND BOTTOM CHORDS FROM NORTH ABUTMENT.
LENTICULAR SPAN IN PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTHWEST ABUTMENT.
DETAIL OF LOWER CHORD, FROM SOUTHWEST ABUTMENT.
SOUTHWEST ENDPOST AND SIDE PANEL DETAIL, SOUTH SPAN.
DETAIL OF SOUTHWEST PANEL OF LENTICULAR TRUSS.
TOP AND BOTTOM CHORDS FROM NORTH ABUTMENT.
PIN CONNECTION, EYE BAR, AND LACED CHANNEL UPRIGHT CONNECTION.
CONTROL #:
NY1775
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